There are quite a number of people like me who need to run Windows applications all the time, and don't won't to get a PC. Some even bought a Mac to run Win apps. Yes, that's true. Currently, the best solution for those people is a copy of Virtual PC.

Virtual PC for Mac 6 seems like a perfect solution. It allows Mac users to run most x86 (PC) operating systems under its emulating environment.

The main draw back about that is the speed of Virtual PC.

In Windows, under My Computers (or System Properties). There's no indication about the CPU speed, a shown in picture below.

We all know that we need faster computer to get more satisfactory performance. One of the main thing we want to see is how fast the CPU does Virtual PC emulate? And how do they perform?

With 3 machines of different specifications all running Virtual PC 6.1.1 under Mac OS X 10.3.3 I run the FutureMark's PCMark 2002 Free to show you the result.

The emulated CPU speed is a bit weird. I have no idea what happened.
It seems to me that CPU score have better meaning...
In PowerBook 12" (1.33GHz), the performance of Windows 2000 SP2 is reasonably fast, after installing the Service Pack 4 (from MS Security Update CD), the feeling seems a bit better.

The PowerBook has one 1.33GHz G4 processor with 768MB RAM, no L3 cache. The PowerMac G4 has two 1.42GHz G4 processors with 2GB RAM, and 4MB L3 cache in total. The speed improvement of Virtual PC running in PowerMac dual G4 is of course better than PowerBook 12", but is not that of big difference. Windows 2000 runs in PowerBook pretty smooth.

Well, the speed seen by the software can not be true.
And benchmarks may not indicate everything. There's always something that benchmark did not measure. We need to actual experience to tell.

With the same old computer, G4 400 MHz, running in OS 9 and OS X. Although the CPU score is higher under OS X. I feel a bit smoother in OS 9 then OS X. It is hard to judge the winner. If I am insist to pick one based on their performance under this case, I'd go for OS 9. However, in real life we need to use other applications as well in the same time, most likely OS X apps.

Connectix stated Virtual PC under OS 9 might out perform running it under OS X, specially for slower machines. I'd agree but the difference is not much. Note: this disagrees with the CPU scores done by PCMark 2002.

After I did a Microsoft update, I got a 651 Error on my Dell Microsoft 7 PC using a wireless router. And I tried everything. But this is what worked. (I did the ‘command prompt’ thing that was suggested by another person and then turned it back to normal — just thought I’d mention that in case it had any effect.) But I fixed the problem by 1st holding the F2 and FN (at the bottom of the keyboard) several times. Then going to the Control Panel, view network status and tasks (click), change adaptor settings (click), somehow my Broadband Connection was the default (there was a green check mark), disabled that, went to Wireless Network Connection that had a black X and enabled that. Nothing happened for awhile. And then as I was sitting there looking at it, the connection came up on it’s own with my router name.